Did you call a Major (weather) Incident?

Did your hospital have a Major Incident last Thursday (9th Feb)?

After receiving more than 70 casualties into our A&E during the morning, all with limb fractures and other injuries from falling on ice, we called a Major Incident.   As you might expect, all elective surgery was cancelled, off-duty staff came in and all our  theatres kept going until the small hours, clearing the needed surgery by the next morning.  Magnificent job, exactly what one would expect.

This was, of course, despite the news media the evening before being full of specific and detailed warnings, that an overnight frost would be followed by rain, that would freeze on contact with the ground, leading to sheet ice.  They even said that the ice would rapidly go as more warm rain melted it, yet STILL the public went out early, and fell over.

Surely other hospitals were in the same postion?   Yet the media have passed by this news, without a mention of public idiocy or NHS excellence.

So please, let's get it on record.  Did your hospital have a Major Weather Incident last Thursday? 
John